Wearing borrowed uniforms, practicing on obscure college campuses, and led by a former Marine Corps W.W. II fighter ace as commissioner, the American Football League (AFL) debuted in the Fall of 1960 to challenge the monopoly of the well-established National Football League. Within ten years it had won two Super Bowls and had forced a merger with its rival, splitting the NFL into the National and American Football Conferences. This colorful history of the AFL and its unforgettable cast of characters, from Billy Cannon to Joe Namath to its "Foolish Club" of team owners, arrives on the 50th anniversary of the AFL's first season to recount the startling success of an upstart league that prevailed against long odds.
- ISBN10 1589794621
- ISBN13 9781589794627
- Publish Date 16 November 2010 (first published 1 January 2010)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Taylor Trade Publishing
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 232
- Language English